The first table below looks at the demand for VPLS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VPLS over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual private LAN service (VPLS)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing VPLS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7 19 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 10.61% 18.27% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 3
Average salary £45,000 £55,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.18% +69.23%
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
VPLS
South East

VPLS
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex region citing VPLS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited VPLS.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure

VPLS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex region citing VPLS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited VPLS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SonicWALL